A Constitution That Matters to People in Tunisia

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09132019..mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis     The Organizer’s Forum delegation, coming from Canada, the United States, Italy, France, Kenya, and Cameroon, began the morning, appropriately, with a briefing on the developments in Tunisia since the Arab Spring.  A large Organizers’ Forum delegation had visited Egypt within the first year of the …

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Different Crowd, Different Questions about Organizing

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09092019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsDusseldorf       On a quick turnaround, “The Organizer” documentary had been translated into Dutch for the showing in Amsterdam.  Meeting at a cultural center that was walkable from near the city center with meeting spaces, a hip bar, and an art cinema, there were more than forty …

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First Steps to Building Community-Labor-Political Alliances without Shortcuts

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09082019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmsterdam      It was just a first step.  ACORN had joined Ron Meyer and Lieke Smits, the principal officers of the Socialist Party Netherlands, in calling together a small group of twenty or so in the late summer who might be able to come together for a conversation …

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